What is a Mixtape?
Affection for the mixtape (mixed tape or mix tape) just seems to grow and grow. A homemade compilation of favorite songs by different artists, it is now legendary. They were a real mainstay of Generation X adolescence and youth, and I made dozens of them as a teenager. I especially liked recording songs off the radio and onto cassettes — except when the DJ talked over the intro. Ugh.
My dad loved mixtapes, too. He recorded hundreds of his favorite songs from records onto cassettes. He spent hours labeling them and categorizing them.
Get a load of some of these items that pay homage to the mixtape — everything from T-shirt designs to a coffee table and lamp. Long live the mixtape!
Mixtape Design
Mixtape Design | I LOVE THIS!
T-shirt design by Lisa Lisberg Refstrup via Flickr
Mixtape Mon Amour
Mixtape Art Print by Nazario Graziano
Life Is A Mixtape
Pop Art Print via Handz Restyle Shop on Etsy
Every mixtape is a love letter.
Even a mixtape brooch | via Corky Saint Clair
Awesome Mixtape Collection
Original Source Unavailable | ffffound
My Awesome Mixtape is even the name of a quirky English band.
A Mixtape Table
The mixtape is also a coffee table | Jeff Skierka Designs
Mixtape Tower
The mixtape is upcycled and repurposed as a lamp | Break the Record via Etsy
mixtapes and wow. i made so many i lost count, i used to work in a studio as a sound tech, we had orders for mass made to customers lists, and i got making my own. hearing vol.1 from guardians of the galaxy was a step back to my early days of sound recording. my library hit 500 tapes ranging from 45 min, to spliced as packed as they would work, now i am gathering some equipment and may just reboot my tapes and have a retro replica and modern set.
I love these and made many, many mix tapes in my day!